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envrionmental issues
social psychology and envieonmental issues
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Types of Concern by Stern et al | Alturistic, egoistic, biospheric |
| Social norms | perceived common and accepted behaviour in a specific situation |
| Sky pointing/gawking | Milgram et al, 1969 |
| Smoke filling room | Latane and Darley, 1968 |
| Flyers on car | Cialini, Kallgren and Zaleski, 2008 |
| Descriptive norms | common behaviour, your belief about what others do |
| Injunctive norms | accepted behaviour, your belief about what other people think you should do |
| Need to play on both desciptive and injunctive norms | Cialdini, 2003 |
| Towels in hotels 1 - generic were better than specific descriptive norms | Schultz, Khazin and Zaleski, 2008 |
| Towels in hotels 2 - found that general and specific norms had a bigger effect than playing on identity (gender/ethnicity), which is the reverse of what participants expected | Goldstein, Cialdini and Frrskevicius, 2008 |
| Four core psychological variables in influencing behaviour | Van Vugt, 2010 |
| Understanding psychological variable | Focus of intervention: information |
| Belonging psychological vairable | Focus of intervention: identity |
| Trusting psychological variable | Focus of intervention: institutions |
| Self-enhancing psychological variable | Focus of intervention: incentives |